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US8522689B2
US8522689B2 US13/161,025 US201113161025A US8522689B2 US 8522689 B2 US8522689 B2 US 8522689B2 US 201113161025 A US201113161025 A US 201113161025A US 8522689 B2 US8522689 B2 US 8522689B2
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B61—RAILWAYS
    • B61B—RAILWAY SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B61B7/00—Rope railway systems with suspended flexible tracks
    • B61B7/04—Rope railway systems with suspended flexible tracks with suspended tracks serving as haulage cables
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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    • B61B—RAILWAY SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B61B12/00—Component parts, details or accessories not provided for in groups B61B7/00 - B61B11/00
    • B61B12/10—Cable traction drives
    • B61B12/105—Acceleration devices or deceleration devices other than braking devices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B61—RAILWAYS
    • B61B—RAILWAY SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B61B12/00—Component parts, details or accessories not provided for in groups B61B7/00 - B61B11/00
    • B61B12/02—Suspension of the load; Guiding means, e.g. wheels; Attaching traction cables
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B61—RAILWAYS
    • B61B—RAILWAY SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B61B12/00—Component parts, details or accessories not provided for in groups B61B7/00 - B61B11/00
    • B61B12/02—Suspension of the load; Guiding means, e.g. wheels; Attaching traction cables
    • B61B12/022—Vehicle receiving and dispatching devices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B61—RAILWAYS
    • B61B—RAILWAY SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B61B12/00—Component parts, details or accessories not provided for in groups B61B7/00 - B61B11/00
    • B61B12/10—Cable traction drives

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  • a cableway system comprising:
  • vehicles formed with a coupling device for coupling the vehicles to the conveying cable and with a travelling-gear mechanism wherein the vehicles are coupled to the conveying cable along a path of the cableway system, uncoupled from the conveying cable at an entrance into the respective station, guided through the station along guide rails by way of the travelling-gear mechanisms, whereupon passengers disembark from and board the vehicles, and wherein the vehicles are coupled once more to the conveying cable at an exit from the respective station;
  • the tire wheels including decelerating tires, conveying tires, and accelerating tires, wherein a speed of the vehicles, after uncoupling from the conveying cable, is reduced by the decelerating tires from a higher speed to a lower speed, the vehicles are moved by the conveying tires at the lower speed through a disembarking and boarding region at which passengers disembark from and board the vehicles, and the speed of the vehicles is increased from the lower speed to the higher speed by the accelerating tires, whereupon the vehicles are once more coupled to the conveying cable and conveyed away from the station; and
  • the objects of the invention are achieved in that the at least one of those supporting rollers for the conveying cable via which the drive power of the control tires is derived from the conveying cable can be adjusted in the vertical direction.
  • the at least one supporting roller, via which the tire wheels are driven, is preferably mounted on at least one pivotally mounted rocker or the like.
  • a further embodiment provides for two rockers, on which are mounted in each case two supporting rollers, which are coupled to one of the control tires for carrying-along action in each case via a drive belt. It is also possible to provide a rocker, with in each case one rocker for in each case two supporting rollers mounted at its ends, wherein at least one of these two pairs of supporting rollers is coupled to a control tire for carrying-along action via a drive belt.
  • first rocker on which are mounted, on the one hand, at least one supporting roller for the conveying cable and, on the other hand, a second rocker with two pairs of supporting rollers, wherein at least one of the two pairs of supporting rollers is coupled to at least one control tire for carrying-along action via a drive belt.
  • At least two supporting rollers may be mounted each at one end of a one-armed rocker, and each of these rockers is designed with a restoring spring which acts counter to the loading by the conveying cable.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of one of the terminal stations in a cableway system according to the invention
  • FIG. 3 is an elevation view of a second embodiment of the detail A in FIG. 1 , again illustrated on an enlarged scale relative to FIG. 1 ;
  • FIG. 4 is an elevation view of a third embodiment of the detail A in FIG. 1 , again illustrated on an enlarged scale relative to FIG. 1 ;
  • FIG. 6 is an elevation view of a fifth embodiment of the detail A in FIG. 1 , again illustrated on an enlarged scale relative to FIG. 1 .
  • FIG. 1 there is shown a terminal station with a load-bearing structure 10 which is borne by columns 1 and 1 a .
  • a reversing or deflecting pulley 2 also referred to as a head wheel 2 , for guiding a conveying cable 20 , is mounted on a more or less vertical axis.
  • the conveying cable 20 is moved in circulation at a speed of, for example, 6 m/sec by a drive motor which, in a preferred implementation, is located in the mountain station.
  • Vehicles 3 in the present case gondolas or cabins, or multi-person chairs, and the like, can be coupled to the conveying cable 20 .
  • the vehicles 3 are coupled to the conveying cable 20 along the path of the cableway system.
  • the vehicles 3 are uncoupled from the conveying cable 20 at the entrance into the station and moved through the station, along a guide rail 4 , by means of a travelling-gear mechanism 31 .
  • the vehicles 3 are once more coupled to the conveying cable 20 at the exit from the station.
  • the guide rail 4 is designed with introduction means 41 at its two free ends.
  • the movement direction of the vehicles 3 is indicated by arrows.
  • tire-clad wheels which are referred to as control tires or tire wheels 51 , 52 and 53 . They are mounted on the load-bearing structure 10 and are coupled to one another for carrying-along action, or slave-along drive connection, via gear mechanisms.
  • the tire wheels 51 of a first group which are located at the entrance into the station, serve as decelerating tires, by means of which the speed of the vehicles 3 , at this time uncoupled from the conveying cable 20 , is reduced from, say, 6 m/sec to, for example, 0.3 m/sec.
  • control tires 52 of a second group are conveying tires, by means of which the vehicles 3 are guided at the speed of, for example, 0.3 m/sec through the boarding and disembarking region of the station, in which the passengers disembark from the vehicle and board the vehicles.
  • the third group of control tires 53 which serve as accelerating tires, increases the speed of the vehicles 3 up to the speed of the conveying cable, for example, 6 m/sec, whereupon the vehicles 3 , at the exit from the station, are coupled to the conveying cable 20 , which circulates at this speed.
  • the conveying cable 20 is guided via a multiplicity of supporting rollers 6 , which are mounted on the load-bearing structure 10 and are rotated by the conveying cable 20 .
  • the control tires 51 , 52 and 53 are driven in that they are coupled for rotation to at least one supporting roller 6 for the conveying cable 20 .
  • the spindle of the at least one supporting roller 6 from which the drive power is derived is rigidly mounted in the prior art systems, while the remaining supporting rollers 6 are non-rigidly supported, for example on rockers.
  • the supporting rollers 6 are mounted on rockers 7 .
  • the spindle of the at least one supporting roller 6 for the conveying cable 20 via which the drive power for the control tires 51 , 52 and 53 is derived from the conveying cable 20 , is not fastened rigidly on the load-bearing structure 10 , as is the case according to the prior art. Rather, the load-bearing structure 10 has mounted on it a rocker 7 with in each case one supporting roller 6 a for the conveying cable 20 mounted at its two ends, wherein these two supporting rollers 6 a are each designed with belt surfaces 6 b for a drive belt 60 .
  • the two supporting rollers 6 a are located on the rocker 7 , on the one hand these two supporting rollers 6 a are subjected to much more uniform loading, by the vibration and vertical movements exerted by the conveying cable 20 , than is the case with supporting rollers mounted on rigid spindles.
  • the load-bearing structure 10 is thereby subjected to considerably lower levels of vibration and impact than is the case with supporting rollers for the conveying cable 20 which are mounted on rigid spindles.
  • the cableway station has provided in it a single rocker 7 via which the drive power of the control tires 51 , 52 and 53 is derived from the conveying cable 20 .
  • the control tires 51 , 52 and 53 may be driven by way of the conveying cable 20 via a plurality of rockers 7 or groups of rockers 7 .
  • the control tires 51 , 52 and 53 may be subdivided into groups which are driven in each case via separate rockers 7 or groups of rockers 7 . Since this drive system is inherently elastic, it is also possible for all the control tires 51 , 52 and 53 to be coupled to one another for carrying-along action.
  • the second embodiment which is illustrated in FIG. 3 , differs from the embodiment according to FIG. 2 by the provision of two rockers 7 , on which are mounted in each case two supporting rollers 6 a , which are coupled to control tires 51 a for carrying-along action by means of drive belts 60 , which are positioned over belt surfaces 6 b of the supporting rollers 6 a .
  • the belt surfaces 51 b of successive control tires 51 a have to have different diameters.
  • the vehicles of such a cableway system can be used both for transporting people and for transporting goods.

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